Skiing early afternoon until close at Snowbird.
Got a Jamba Juice smoothie on the way home, then went home, let Holly out, and ran 22 miles immediately thereafter. 2:40, about on the nose, so about 7:16 pace, which felt easy and in control (although running for nearly 3 hours after skiing is still tiring on the legs). Anyway, I ran from my place to Jordan River Parkway, along the winding path to 4500 south, along that to 1100 east (without a sidewalk in a few places, which was extremely annoying), along that and then up the forced turn around brickyard to 1300 east, to highland, to 21st south, to 9th east (which I've seemed to love running this past week), up to South Temple and back home, looping down to B to get the distance up to a clean 22. I had gels at miles 11, 15, and 18, so I didn't feel like i was going to crash at any point, unlike on a few of my other recent long runs (about a month or a month and a half back, I did both an 18 and a 19 miler on an empty stomach with no gels, and felt pretty awful over the last few miles). In any case, 81 miles for the week is the biggest I've gotten in since April, which is definitely something to be excited about, not to mention that I also skied twice and lifted weights three times this week as well, making it a pretty massive week of physical activity. I did not feel any soreness or tightness in my hip whatsoever at any point during the run tonight, so that's also something to be excited about. Ok, time to write for a little while on my proposal for grad school, and then relax.
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